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akuser47 wrote:Lookin good I bet she'll be a shooter +guns I also am curious how she'll look once the guns done and ready. Your truoil finishes always look great.
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While making the cartridge samples to send to Lee for the Factory Crimp Die, I quickly figured out that I'm going to be better off forming cases from 38-55 Win brass instead of 30-30 Win brass. The 35/30-30 uses the same cartridge length as the 30-30 Win, 2.039". If you start with that, you end up with a cartridge length of about 2.000" after forming. Expanding the neck from .308" to .358" eats up a lot of that length. Better to start with the 38-55 Win at 2.085" and end up with a cartridge just slightly over the 2.039"!

Our Post Office still has Saturday mail, so the samples are enroute to WI.
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I've lived here 12 years and the PO has never been open on Saturday but they deliver.

Too bad about the brass. Surely .30-30 is more common.
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GasGuzzler wrote:Too bad about the brass. Surely .30-30 is more common.
Actually not bad at all. I have just as much 38-55 Win brass as I do 30-30 Win, several thousand cases, but only one 38-55. I own five 30-30s so I'd rather rob from the 38-55.

When it was all said and done, the 38-55 Win delivers 1.2 cc more useful case capacity so 38-55 Win it will be.
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Nice how that worked itself out. I love it when results push us into a better end result. +guns
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I take it that's one pass through the FL sizer and fire form?

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Ohio3Wheels wrote:I take it that's one pass through the FL sizer and fire form?
Yeap. The 30-30 brass that I formed went back through a 30-30 Win FL sizer and back to stock without issues.
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Quick turn by JES on the 35/30-30, received it yesterday! Now I need to get busy! I will get the barrel drilled & tapped for the Redfield IER mount and start on refinishing the stock set.

Oh... bought the NOE 360-230-RF (that I designed :shock: ), it was on a .358 Sale NOE is having.
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I've got the little brother in a Super 14" Contender pistol. 357 Herret.

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Okie those are sexy bullets, and RD I cannot wait to see how your rifle turns out. +guns +corn
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